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The colour which had been driven from her face, returned for half a minute with an additional glow, and a smile of delight added lustre to her eyes, as she thought for that space of time that his affection and wishes must still be unshaken. But she would not be secure". Jane Austen
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little..."
When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion. David Herbert Lawrence
She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were about to burn up or shatter. Alice Hoffman
If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil? Ayn Rand
Jane Austen quote: "Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and..."
Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal. Jane Austen
Publilius Syrus quote: "whom fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad"
whom fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad Publilius Syrus
You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praisesbut stand mutewith the agony of wishing in my heart ! Rumi
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than at imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence. Bertrand Russell
Damn, I was lonely that autumn. I wished for a girl I could hang out with. I neverreally did anything to meet girls, too shy, too fucked up. Autumn makesme think of women. Henry Rollins
Alice Hoffman quote: "That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you..."
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. Alice Hoffman
Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid it is? In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this dark world AND to illuminate... David Foster Wallace
In his Comedy, Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and yet, as Herr Meinhard remarks, makes such ill use of him: a clear proof that even in the days of Dante one praised the ancients without knowing why. This respect for poets one does not understand and yet wishes to equal is the source of the bad writing in our literature. Georg C. Lichtenberg
I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate. Albert Camus
Raymond Burr quote: "Try to live your life the way you wish other people would live..."
Try to live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs. Raymond Burr

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